ACCORDING TO ARMEN ASHOTIAN, CERTAIN MEDIA RESEMBLE "WITNESSES OF LEVON" SECT

Noyan Tapan
Dec 14, 2007

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 14, NOYAN TAPAN. The members of the Azeri delegation,
who were taking part in the Dartmouth conference held on December
6-9, were openly expressing their enthusiasm in connection with
the nomination of the candidature of Levon Ter-Petrosian, the first
President of the Republic of Armenia, in the presidential elections
of Armenia. This information was provided by Armen Ashotian, a member
of the Armenian delegation of the conference and a member of the Board
of the Republican party. Azeris, according to him, expect the victory
of Levon Ter-Petrosian with all the consequences proceeding from it:
in partucular, the readiness for making essential concessions with
regard to the Nagorno Karabakh problem.

Armen Ashotian denied the allegation of the journalist of the "Taregir"
electronic newspaper, according to which he, holding the post of
the Chairman of the student council of the Medical University, had,
allegedly, forced other students to take part in the rallies organized
within the frameworks of the campaign of Levon Ter-Petrosian. Armen
Ashotian declared that he became chairman of the student union only
in 1999, that is to say, when Levon Ter-Petrosian, in his words,
"had already become a history."

The political figure of the Republican Party of Armenia mentioned that
perhaps certain journalists would feel good if he "praised the first
President for hours." "You praised him then," the journalist of the
"Taregir" opposed. In response, Armen Ashotian declared that certain
media resemble a sect, which can be called "witnesses of Levon."